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  1. champaignchris
    Rivas optioned to AAA, McKinstry added to the roster.
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    McKinstry is very much in the Wisdom/Scwindel/Ortega mold of guys who put up good not great numbers in the minors, but never got much of a chance in the Majors.
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    Did the front office take that decision out of Ross’ hands? I’ve been wondering if the FO had the, “Are you injured or would you rather be released?” Discussion with Heyward. There really isn’t any place for him on the roster right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if he stayed “injured” until rosters expand in about 5 weeks.
  4. champaignchris
    Would Gabriel Moreno be too big an ask for Happ? Happ + Robertson? Moreno would fill a pretty obvious need.
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    I'm not sure that's any less representative of their future than playing all the best teams on their schedule for 2 months with 1.5 healthy starting pitchers Right. This was a team that was supposed to hover just under .500 this year, which is basically what they’ve done when they’ve had at least 3 of the starting pitchers available they were supposed to have heading into the season. ETA: Hendricks, Stroman, Miley and Smyly have only started 44 of 97 games this year.
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    The Astros' AAA team is in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston. The two ballparks are 22 miles apart. There are several like this. Atlanta’s suburban stadium is only about 30 miles from AAA Gwinnett (Lawrenceville). Seattle and Tacoma are only about 35 miles apart. Boston-Worcester, Philadelphia-Lehigh Valley (Allentown) and Detroit-Toledo are all 50-60 miles.
  7. champaignchris
    I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out. His past track record and current peripherals would seem to indicate that he can’t continue to be the 3.00 ERA guy that he’s been over 75 innings with the Cubs. But with three more years of team control and a minimal salary, there’s absolutely no reason why the Cubs shouldn’t ride him until his luck runs out. I suspect, like Alec Mills or Eddie Butler before him, his stats will eventually fall to match his talent.
  8. champaignchris
    Go Illini!
  9. champaignchris
    Don’t know, but the fact that Maddux, Walton, Dwight Smith, Grace, Mitch Williams and Dunston transitioned into one of the worst teams of the 90’s is pretty sad. Edit: and even Sandberg into the mid 90’s had he not quit for awhile. well, (aside from all of the bad moves those FOs made) part of that was that shawon dunston actually really sucked (i did not realize this at the time lol). like REALLY sucked. He was becoming a pretty consistent player until injuries eliminated what should have been his most productive years. He basically missed all of 92 and 93 and half of 94.
  10. champaignchris
    Doug Dascenzo, and Harry horsefeathering loved that dude. “Ya know, Steve, if you spelled Da-sinzo backwards it would be, Oz-nik-zode” My two favorites were Paw Paw, Michigan backwards is “wap-wap” and of course, Shawon Dunston backwards is “not-snud.”
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    Kruk is one of them, I believe. Kruk always looked weird as a player, but now seems relatively normal looking. I realize now that he always looked 60 and now he’s actually 60. I’ll always respect him for his retirement announcement after battling testicular cancer. “I’m going to take my ball and go home.”
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    That surprised me as well. And then I thought, "maybe he was a really old rookie in 1989." But nope, he debuted at 25. We're just getting old. What an amazing rookie season he had. He was never quite able to reproduce those results, although he did have a bit of a renaissance in 93-94. Thinking of Dwight Smith made me pull up Jerome Walton's stats for reference and I was amazed by his stat lines from 94-98. It was a very limited sample size over those years, but he was consistently hitting around .300 with OPS in the 750-900 range. Why didn't he get more at bats during that timeframe? Does anyone know why he retired at 32? Don’t know, but the fact that Maddux, Walton, Dwight Smith, Grace, Mitch Williams and Dunston transitioned into one of the worst teams of the 90’s is pretty sad. Edit: and even Sandberg into the mid 90’s had he not quit for awhile. There were some pretty astoundingly bad trades in there to help make that happen. The Cubs turned Lee Smith, Dennis Eckersly, Rafael Palmeiro, and Jamie Moyer into one decent year of Mitch Williams. Add the failure to resign Greg Maddux to that and you have a recipe for a lot of years of suck.
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    I still can’t get over how utterly insane it is that a team would even consider trading away 2.5 years of a talent like Soto on his rookie contract instead of spending the remaining time you have control of him trying to make a run at another WS. Miguel Cabrera is the only similar example I can think of, and that was the Marlins and the worst owner in baseball history.
  14. champaignchris
    It will be really interesting to see how ownership handles the off-season assuming the remainder of the season goes the way it looks like it’s going to go. You can’t put one of the worst teams in franchise history on the field and then not respond to it, right? If ownership was actually trying to win and actually cared about the product on the field, you’d fire some combination of Hoyer and Ross.
  15. champaignchris
    .378 headed into tonight’s game. If you’re 40 or younger the competition is .377 in 2012. If you’re 41-55 it’s 1981’s strike-shortened .369. If you’re 56 or older, the Cubs’ all-time worst record came in 1962 and 1966 - .364. Considering we only have 2 or 3 more weeks of Contreras and Robertson and whomever else they decide to sell off, this has a very good chance of being the worst team in most of our lifetimes and possibly the worst Cubs team of all time.
  16. champaignchris
    5 teams have 6 losses in extras this year. The Cubs have 9, pending this almost certain loss.
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    The Cubs are 9-10 in their last 19. Every loss has been by 1 or 2 runs or in extra innings.
  18. champaignchris
    Beth Mowins is fine. Sutcliffe is awful, though. I was gonna say, what’s wrong with Beth Mowins? She’s solid. I like Mowins. She has an accent that sounds like she’s from the Midwestern sticks, somewhere like rural Kansas or my neck of the woods Central Illinois. I looked up her Wikipedia and was surprised to learn she grew up in Syracuse. But then, I suppose to someone from NYC, Syracuse IS the Midwestern sticks.
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    It was only 33 games, but Higgins hit the crap out of the ball at AAA in 21 and earlier this season. He was trending upward in performance from 17–18-19 before the COVID season.
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    Sampson now has a 2.86 ERA in 56.2 innings pitched as a Cub between 21 and 22. He was DFA’d and unclaimed by any other teams at one point during this period.
  21. champaignchris
    And Alzolay and Mills, too. The top 6 starting pitchers in the organization headed into this year. On a related note, what the heck with Sampson? He got shelled in Korea. Has never been anything special at AAA, but just keeps getting people out for the Cubs through about 50 innings.
  22. champaignchris
    Hendricks to the IL. No corresponding move announced. So it could be that Smyly or Stroman is brought off the IL, but at least for the next hour or two Stroman, Hendricks, Smyly, Miley, Mills and Alzolay are all on the IL.
  23. champaignchris
    3-8. No other team has more than 6 losses. Lol Yeah. 48 losses this year. 1 in 6 has been in extra innings.
  24. champaignchris
    3-8.
  25. champaignchris
    Left him out there 2 batters too long.
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